Carpet Page Lindisfarne Gospels

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Carpet page lindisfarne gospels.

Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship. One bird situated in the upper left hand quadrant has blue and pink stripes in contrast to others that sport registers of feathers. A carpet page from the lindisfarne gospels carpet pages are a characteristic feature of insular illuminated manuscripts. British library a dense interplay of stacked birds teem underneath the crosses of the carpet page that opens john s gospel.

Time of social upheaval and devastation invasions. Lindisfarne island off the coast of northumberland in england. Lindisfarne gospels john s cross carpet page folio 210v. Produced in the british isles between 500 900 ce.

The lindisfarne gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page introducing the letter of st. 793 ce vikings pillaged the monastery but the monks were able to keep the lindisfarne gospels safe. They are pages of mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms typically placed at the beginning of each of the four gospels in gospel books. There are sixteen pages of arcaded canon tables where parallel passages of the four evangelists are laid out.

The lindisfarne gospels is a manuscript that contains the gospels of the four evangelists mark john luke and matthew.